Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Dec 2006 21:24 UTC
OS X is more appealing to enterprises as a desktop operating system than ever before and although it is unlikely to take market share away from Windows, the Mac could reduce the number of Linux-based desktops, according to research group Gartner. In a report published by Gartner this week titled Enterprise Mac Clients Remain Limited, but Apple's Appeal is Growing, analysts Michael Silver, Neil MacDonald, Ray Wagner and Brian Prentice, said that administrators will most likely have to prepare for more Mac systems in their environment even though OS X is "not a suitable enterprise wide platform". Ars weighs in on the issue as well.
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2006-01-11
"Cannot help a wry smile at this. Surely the whole thing about OSX was, it avoided Driver Hell by being specially designed for its hardware as one integrated whole....Now we have a guy installing it on a Mac, and what does he complain about?
Drivers!"
To be fair, I've been using OS X since the public betas, and have never had an issue installing a driver. Of course I've probably only ever installed 3 drivers during that time. Since (as you point out) the drivers for bluetooth, usb2, fw400, fw800, video, network, wifi, modem etc are all supplied as an integral part of the OS and set themselves up automatically.